To show
- the plight of the prostitutes?
- that there are some peverse rich people out there?
- that not all whores are stupid?
- that it hasn't changed that much in the modern days?
What was your take of the movie?
With due respect this is a painfully boring movie.
In spite of the Good casting, decor, and costumes I am sorry to say all that did not wipe out
the superficiality and banality of the scenario and the absence of any touching plot or message.
Filming in dim lighting and in slow motion is not enought to make another Ingmar Bergman film.
It was a very good movie, I enjoyed it very much. What was the point of it? Well, I didn't really feel any need to ask this question. Except at the very end, when they showed a contemporary city and street prostitutes. What was the point of this very last shot?
shareI thought the last shot was most poignant; it tried to say that all said and done, the current situation with prostitution etc has not changed much at all.
shareJust the opposite - the last shot was meant to show that the profession has lost its glamour of yesteryears and now it's just girls on the side of the road. The whole movie showed the decline of the "fine" prostitition.
shareWasn't that the actress who played Clotilde, getting out of the car in the last scene? Sure looked like her to me.
"Bastard in a basket!" "Bastard in a basket!"
Yes, that was the actress who played Clotilde. And I believe the girl in the background was the young "new" prostitute from the story. The point was to show that, while times change, the "oldest profession" still exists in it's inevitable way.
This was a good film to spur thinking. Yes, it was slow; and some of the flashbacks to get the whole story on Madeleine were a bit confusing. But I think that was to reflect the state of their reality.
Entertainment
shareThat prostitution is horrible. Till this day the concept of prostitution is still glamourized or romanticized when it comes to the "higher class prostitutes" or past times like the belle epoque. Some people still think prostitutes like their work or do it because it's an easy way to make money.
The setting in the film looks glamourous, the costumes are beautiful, the women look healthy, the customers are relatively good looking and the madame takes care of her ladies. Still in the best setting you can see how incredibly harsh the life of a prostitute is. The women are in such a vulnurable position, a prey for perverted or violent men, the danger of deadly STD's and addiction to drugs. Eventhough they are free to leave, they are not free at all. The fear of the world outside or debts they created themselves, keeps them locked in.
And as the ending shows, these things are still going on in the world.
The "point"? Are you serious?
smh
"Love isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you DO". (The Last Kiss)
I don't think the film was supposed to have a message so much as it was just supposed to capture a moment in time
share